Re: MtMan-List: Cabelas Flintlock -- Historically Accurate?

["Barry Conner" <buck.conner@worldnet.att.net>]

House Of Muskets in Colorado, see ad in most mags, has a replacement parts
kit for internal parts, that are made by Uberrti, better quality than what
your gun has, plus all parts have been heta treated. The kit is less than
$20.00 and corrects trigger pull as well as cylinder alignment, Don at House
says it fits any of the Italian copies.

Buck
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Colburn <jc60714@navix.net>
To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com <hist_text@lists.xmission.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Cabelas Flintlock -- Historically Accurate?


>Washtahay-
>At 12:01 AM 11/10/98 +0000, you wrote:
>>I have bought several guns from Cabellas.  Their patterson, available
>>intermitantly, is fine.
> Please define "fine".  To date, I have seen 9 Colt Pattersons from
>Cabelas.  All with broken hands or locking bolts.  Total of less than 1000
>shots through the 9.  Is this fine?  Apparently you and I have altogether
>different ideas of acceptable quality, and maybe that is where the problem
is.
>
>> It is made by Uberrti.
> It is made by Uberti (sometimes) but IT IS MADE TO A PRICE, BY THE LOW
>BIDDER.  Those cost saving have to come from somewhere.  Part of the
>savings no doubt come from scale of production, but the rest comes from
>lowering of quality.  Cabelas figures that the average shooter will shoot
>the gun 'X' times-so that is the expected lifetime of the gun.  If it
>breaks before then, oh well.  If it lasts longer be amazed.
>
>> I also bought a Harper's
>>Ferry 1803.  I have it from an expert that it is about as good as a
>>factory version gets, as far as Harper's Ferry goes.
> Who is your expert?  Have you ever set a Harper's Ferry from Cabelas
>alongside an original?  Did you know that most of the Cabelas Harpers Ferry
>guns require work to make them reliable (Navy Arms were the same way, don't
>know about hte new ones)?
>
>>I've sold them
>>both, to buy something else that ' I 'just had to have'.  The Patterson
>>was bought for $250,  The cheapest from a dealer was $325.  Same gun,
>>same maker....
> DIFFERENT QUALITY!  If you don't compare the quality, you aren't talking
>the same thing-remember your third grade math teacher talking about
>comparing apples and oranges?
>
>> A friend bought the Lyman Great plains, in flint, and
>>enjoys it.  It has a coil spring in the lock, so is not authentic, but
>>'who will know'?
> ANyone who looks at it can see the appearance is not authentic.  For all
>of that, it DOES usually work, and it is safe.
>LongWalker c. du B.
>